Scalawag

A scalawag was a white southerner from the United States who supported the liberal US Republican Party and its policies during the Reconstruction era of the American South (1865-1877). Scalawags were disloyal to the southern tradition of white supremacy, and they supported the South's transition into a modernized region of the USA; they were often seen as corrupt by pro-segregation southerners. Ultimately, the Republicans would not gain a major foothold in the south, as the US Democratic Party ruled the region as the "Solid South".